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Lots of projects with good security track records host key servers in a "member's house". That said, the F-Droid buildserver is not hosted in anyone's house.

There are two key concepts at play here: "least authority" and "infrastructure as code". The buildserver host is sensitive security-wise, but easy to set up an instance. We have mu…

The limiting factor for upgrading our buildserver is finding a trusted, skilled sysadmin to physically install, setup and maintain new hardware at the high level of security that i…

F-Droid is working to figure out how to manage secure backups in a way that is controlled by a free software community and is as secure and usable as possible.

I hope that this precedent applies to any and all countries waging illegal wars. This definitely should apply to US/UK/etc regarding the Iraq War.

Interesting points, I agree the Updates tab could do better there. Update All is implemented if you have F-Droid Privileged Extension installed, it could also be implemented when i…

We welcome contributions to support APK diffs, it would make a big impact: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/450

JSON is the file format, it is then parsed and stored in the local SQLite

Hey @pserwylo, great to hear from you, and I especially appreciate your message here with the background. And I'd like to highlight your point that there is much less contributor t…

This is a full revamp of a bunch of the key guts of the app. We hope that other F-Droid-compatible clients like Classic, Foxy, NeoStore, droid-ify, etc. can benefit from this revam…

I disagree that the main question is: "do multiple stores benefit the user?". The main question is: "Should the user have the choice in their stores?". Apple believes that their us…

How people access apps is not a on/off switch between walled garden and dog eat dog free for all. Decentralized systems need to be designed with safety in mind, just like walled ga…

With free software and reproducible builds, it is possible for small scale curators to inherit the security of the large scale curators. That is why they are key pieces of the f-dr…

I agree with basically all the points in this thread, one thing that is missing is that most of these points are not mutually exclusive. A decentralized system like F-Droid does no…

It is true that many essential organizations cannot effectively defend their networks. But it is also important to point out that there are many orgs that _are_ effectively defendi…

With free software and decentralized repositories, users in each country can decide which software they want to distribute and how. If someone thinks a local ban is unjust, they kn…

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If you're interested in learning more about what F-Droid offers, I can recommend some more blog posts: * https://f-droid.org/2022/09/30/free-software-and-inspection-... * https://f…

GNOME Software is an app: https://apps.gnome.org/app/org.gnome.Software/

It is not about scale as much as the possibility of getting apps from multiple sources. Each source can set its own curation policies, and each user can choose the sources they wan…

IEEE is not alone in that, basically all editorials in major publications are backed by PR staff. That's how it works, at least in the US.

That may be true if you are sideloading F-Droid. Our security model focus is based on integrating F-Droid into the ROM, like with CalyxOS. This method is proven to provide better s…

Jitsi lets you set room passwords, and it is also very easy to create a new Jitsi room, so you can easily send a new URL around as needed.

F-Droid is about user freedom, so there are clients that are more like Linux package managers, for example https://github.com/mvdan/fdroidcl